Single-player games like ZED ZONE
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to ZED ZONE, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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ZERO Sievert
Single-player alternative to ZED ZONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZED ZONE.
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to ZED ZONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with ZED ZONE.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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DeadPoly
Single-player alternative to ZED ZONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZED ZONE.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
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HumanitZ
Single-player alternative to ZED ZONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with ZED ZONE.
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
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NEO Scavenger
Single-player alternative to ZED ZONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with ZED ZONE.
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
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VEIN
Single-player alternative to ZED ZONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with ZED ZONE.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
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LifeZ - Survival
Single-player alternative to ZED ZONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ZED ZONE.
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
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Sheltered
Single-player alternative to ZED ZONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with ZED ZONE.
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
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ZOMBI
Single-player alternative to ZED ZONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with ZED ZONE.
London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.